Solar power has been on the rise for years, and for good reason. It has become one of the cheapest ways to generate energy almost everywhere, and it is one of the best options for combatting climate change.
Yet it still has its detractors. US energy secretary Chris Wright has claimed solar couldn’t supply all the energy the world needs. This is wildly and embarrassingly wrong, as many have pointed out. In fact, in the long run, solar – including wind, which captures the sun’s energy through a different mechanism – is the only power source that can meet growing energy demand without frying the planet.
This article is reductive to the point of uselessness. By this logic, burning human bodies for steam power would count as solar because we are all star dust.
Given how much of our food is grown with fossile fuel made fertilizers, I would say burning humans is definitely not a renewable energy source 😅
Except for nuclear (fusion and fission) and geothermal, every form of energy comes from the sun eventually.
Fossil fuels used to be living forms, that got their energy from either other life forms or photosynthesis. Maybe geothermal for deep sea creatures.
And even fission and geothermal you could argue it’s solar. Not from our sun, but from other stars, that formed the atoms. Both the radioactive ones and the ones that are hot inside the planet.
Yes, that is the point I was making.
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